Re: [bug] white space in Newsgroups: line
Adam Funk <[email protected]>
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On 2008-01-18, Peter J Ross wrote:
> Google Groups wrongly inserts white space into the Newsgroups: line, e.g.
> Newsgroups: alt.foo, alt.bar, alt.foo.bar
> which, according to a consensus of everybody from net.gods like Russ Allbery
> to net.nobodies like me, fails to comply with RFC 1036 ("Multiple newsgroups
> may be specified, separated by a comma." It's agreed that *only* a comma is a
> valid separator.)
>
> Most newsreaders, including Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Forte Agent,
> remove such white space from the Newsgroups: line, but slrn pre0.9.9-77
> doesn't.
>
> My local server/proxy, Leafnode2, rightly rejects my replies to crossposted
> Google-Groups articles because of the white space.
Interesting. I haven't had this problem with leafnode 1.
> I hope this isn't too dfficult to fix. As a temporary workaround, I'm using
> this in my .vimrc:
>
> autocmd VimEnter .followup :silent! :1s/\([^:]\) \+/\1/g
Have you got an elisp version?
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